But since arriving here, for the game he wondered whether he would ever play in, taking in all the signs promoting Super Bowl XLVIII and the mass of media day after day, he’s looked as if in a dream.

“It’s way better than I expected,” said Jammer, who played 11 seasons for the Chargers before signing with the Denver Broncos this past May. “Just being here after 12 years out of it and getting close, you get here and it’s unreal.”

Getting to a Super Bowl is special for every player. But it is perhaps more so when the clock is running out on man’s playing days.

Jammer’s first career could end Sunday night.

“I would like to play one more year,” he said. “After that one, that’s completely it. I’m done. That will be 13, and I’m fine with that.”

A Super Bowl ring, he said, could hasten his willingness to walk away.

“I would consider retiring more,” he said with a shrug. “But at the same time, I have it in my head I’m going to play one more.”

Regardless, this is not a man without a plan.

The no-nonsense, plain-as-the-Texas-dirt Jammer is going to become an agent and represent NFL players.

This is not a whim. He’s been pondering it for several years, studying for more than a year, assembling a team.

“Getting my crap together,” he said, in the summary way he does.

It’s going to be a mission as much as a vocation.

“You see so many guys being taken advantage of,” Jammer said. “There are a lot of good (agents) out there, but there are some that aren’t good. I want to do it to protect guys I know.”

Beware NFL General Managers. Beware other agents.

Have no doubt that Jammer will work as an agent the way he has played as a cornerback –hitting hard, making up for starting out behind with an aggressive and passionate manner.

Besides friends and some former teammates, there have to be an abundance of players that will want to be represented by a guy known for his hustle and hard work and honesty, who has publicly acknowledged going through hard times and has survived … and who is one victory from having a Super Bowl ring.

“I’m just trying to enjoy the moment,” he said.

He’s earned it.

Jammer made it be known even before his last contract ran out that he would accept a backup role to remain with the only team for which he’d ever played. The Chargers were not interested. Now he’s a role player one victory from celebrating that culminating victory he thought would come while he wore blue and gold.

“It was hard,” he said of the Chargers not bringing him back in 2013, after 11 seasons with the team. “That was the first time in my career I hadn’t been wanted by the Chargers. It was difficult, but after a while you get over it.”

It’s easier when you go to a team that has won 15 of its 18 games and is on the verge of winning a title.

But Jammer has also been humbled this season, a difficult thing to imagine considering his baseline humility. But he went from being one team’s longest-tenured player, who had started 157 of the previous 160 games to another team’s new guy who hardly played.

Jammer first was tried at safety but acknowledges now it was more difficult to play than he thought, especially in an unfamiliar system. He was moved back to corner, but was inactive five of the first seven games. Eventually, injuries to other players afforded Jammer more playing time, and he has worked at least 19 defensive snaps in eight of the past 11 games. He was strictly a special teamer in the AFC Championship.

“After starting my career so long, yeah, it was sort of humbling,” Jammer said. “But at the same time, the longer you play, the more you know you’re a role player … It’s had its ups and downs. But at the end of the day, I’m still a team player more than anything. I just do what I have to do to help.”

It’s easy to see how he will be a magnanimous advisor, full of empathy while taking no prisoners.

Again, a warning to the league’s GM’s. When it happens that you no longer want him on your team, Jammer will soon be haggling with you on behalf of other players you do want.

For now, at least for the rest of this week, Jammer is still living his first dream.